Reddit reviews His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

Friend. There's a really interesting book called His Broken Body. http://www.amazon.com/His-Broken-Body-Understanding-Catholic/dp/0615183611?ie=UTF8&keywords=his%20broken%20body&qid=1459185341&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

It addresses many of the issues and seeks to heal the separation. It's a little pricey but well worth it.

If you asked me (much to dismay of many EO here) I say they still are one Church. I kind of follow the thinking of David Bentley Hart's The Myth of Schism article. http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.ae/2012/05/myth-of-schism-by-david-bentley-hart.html

In Lebanon, the Greek Antiochian Orthodox and Maronite Catholics (plus the Greek Catholics, Syriac Catholics, Syriac Orthodox, etc) almost act and function like One Church and One Body. They intermarry and in many towns intercommune, pray the liturgy together, some monasteries are joined together, etc, etc.

If you have specific questions (coming from my background) perhaps I can help you answer them :)

His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches by Fr Laurent Cleenewerck is a great, non-polemical book on the differences between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism (Fr Laurent is Orthodox and writing from an Orthodox perspective).

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Off the top of my head, these should be helpful to you, though I'm certain there are others. These are scholarly works, which is what it sounds like you're looking for, though I would strongly suggest simply reading various Church Fathers, starting with the "Apostolic Fathers" collection, then becoming familiar with the Cappadocians. I cannot overemphasize how helpful and illuminating simply reading various Fathers is.

His Broken Body
and The Primacy of Peter: Essays in Ecclesiology